so, my friend Pan, who runs Sensory Research up in Michigan, was nice enough to send me a dvd of the A&E Biography on Zappa. I had watched my tape of it recently and wanted to buy it, but apparently A&E have decided Zappa's not cool enough (or whatever) to release the episode for sale. (I guess it could be a music rights issue, too -- but whatever.) once i had the dvd in my hands i was itching to watch it, even though i've had that episode on tape for years. naturally, though, i ended up staying late at work, delaying my watching it ever so slightly. :)

once home, i called gabe, who came over. we ordered a pizza and threw on the dvd, on which Pan had included an old (60s?) documentary on electronic music, which was pretty sweet. many potential samples.... ;) after that, of course, we watched the zappa bio, which does a pretty good job, though the sections Peter Graves read came off sounding like a high school paper. e.g.: "Dweezil and Ahmet formed their own band, Z, which performs original music with many of the Zappa trademarks." ugh. oh well.

after that, on to the Golden Lions for the karaoke with gabe. januaryfairy met us there later, as did my friend laura, and some of the regular conspirators (janet and sharon). not very packed, but i somehow only ended up doing two songs, even so.

then off home, where i chatted with McChinaToast for a moment before crashing.